I spend all day at work having a fake factor ‘party’ with my group and deriving equations all day 😵 but then I got to do crosswords at a brewery with my fave 🍻 so I’ll count today as a net positive 👍 #nebco#christmas#beer

Sky in Hawai'i is so full of drama. The playful sun, sudden bursts of rainbows and showers, and the clouds sporting different shapes and shades. There's never a dull moment. And as for me, I have finally taken a break to enjoy this drama.
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#lanikaipillbox#pillboxhike#travelgram#hawaiilife#gradlife

What an incredible winter quarter! Feeling accomplished, conceptual studio now complete. 🙌 Definitely stretched my imagination with creating a structure for a near distant future. Under the scenario of socialism, I designed this delicate, whimsical repository that holds the last silk material in existence...Also— couldn’t help but insert @childishgambino into my renderings 😁! #drexelinteriors#gradlife#conceptualstudio#interiorarchitecture

I call this “Grad school semester one in selfies*.” Thanks frens for making this first semester a whole heck of a lot easier. 🥳🥰🥂🍾 Also there are people who are not pictured but that is because we failed to take pictures (@kooliajelly, @nmawhirter and @ekr008 😞 don’t worry, next time we will) .
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*(Disclaimer they are not all selfies, but when someone’s gonna volunteer to take your pic you don’t turn them down) #ecgradlife

I work as a pharmacy Intern in a Medication Therapy Management center. It's a mouthful, but every day I go into work I'm helping people better understand why they take their medications and promoting overall health and wellness. It's super fulfilling being that point person, and while still being in pharmacy school! I'm definately living in my purpose. At least part of it 😉 💚

Went for a measly walk today...which turned into a 3.5 mile reflection...🤷‍♀️
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I’ve found that cardio and the gym is what’s helping me stay motivated and heal. I have so much to be proud of myself for. I have all A’s, got through my first semester in grad school, and managed to meet a great group of people.💕 But I still haven’t been happy with myself. ••
I’ve been told that when someone leaves you, you have every right to feel sad, to mourn. But weirdly enough I feel like I don’t need to feel sad. I don’t want to. If anything I’m mourning my past self and what I once had. I re-discovered fitness and I’m using that to cope. I don’t want to feel sad or feel dead inside, I want to be more alive than I ever have been💪👊💪
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#cardiocalled#workout#fitnessjourney#positivevibes#workingonmyself#futureschoolpsychologist#gradlife#rediscover#phdlife

This semester I learned a lot along my journey towards my career in public health. One of the most interesting things is that consumption of alcohol and/or smoking (separately or together) increase your risk of having either an ischemic stroke (narrowing or blockage of arteries) or hemorrhagic stroke (internal bleeding). #publichealth#graduateschool#globalhealth#gradlife#NYU#nyc#nyucgph

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.” -Lewis Carroll
Honestly, this is one of my favorite photos that I’ve ever taken. I like what it represents, I feel like it’s important to reflect on who you are and what in your life has led you to this moment in time. Our past and the experiences we go through shape who we are and how we face the future.
I also think @zoey3c is just stunning.

mmunofluorescence (IF) imaging is a powerful tool that allows us to stain cells to visualize a protein. Did you know IF can also be used to determine whether two proteins interact? The blue images (second picture) show a technique known as the proximity ligation assay, or PLA. The PLA is a powerful fluorescence-based technique in which the foci is a marker of a protein-protein interaction. In this assay, first primary antibodies are bound to two proteins of interest. Then, instead of using secondaries coupled to fluorophores, as in traditional IF, secondaries bound to DNA strands are added. These DNA strands are ligated together and a PCR reaction, or elongation of the DNA, is performed. .
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What assays do you use in lab to measure protein-protein interactions?

1 of us is done with finals and Semester one (Me: Caro). I Want to share some reflection I have been doing because of this book. This book brought; hate, guilt, reflection, defeat, a mental breakdown, but most importantly hope. I literally could not put myself to write a paper because of this book! I would start, stop, start, stop and every single time it was a new draft. After processing this book and my mentor telling me to snap out of it I was finally able to wrote my paper, a month later.
This book validated me in so many ways:
1) My style of working with youth is valid, real, nurturing and empowering (extending past what the data reports say)
2) My way of thinking isn't "out of line" it's just something people are scared of
3) I am me. Greñuda, gordita, optimistic, caring, resilient and so much more.
4) Education is universal, it happens in and outside of institution.
I am not ready to read this book again yet, but if anyone knows books written by POC, partially POC Women around this topic please share :) #GradLife#Pedagogy#Freire#Reflection#Finals

When it’s the 6-month mini anniversary of your wedding and your husband’s paper got accepted in a journal so he wants to celebrate, when you have tons of gifts to wrap and send to family for Christmas, and you haven’t been to the gym for 10 days and are living off of ramen,cupcakes and instant laksa, you know that you’re a grad student with terrible health, personal life and numbing stress! Oh the deadlines!!!
#gradlife#darklife#helpme

Housing in the Age of Cyborg
Part of a a series of images to come, the project shown here is the culmination of work done for the Integrative Systems Studio at Taubman College.
The studio and project challenge what housing will look like and act as in the future under the speculation of technologies and societal changes.
The project produced embodies new modes of personal and regional mobility, shared communal living, and high density housing within downtown Detroit and it’s greater Metro area.
The total number of housing units within the project are dedicated to these new shared communal units that can house 10-20 people in them (depending upon if bedrooms are individual or bunked). This type of housing also increases the density of the project and offers new public spaces for these communal units
The various units are connected to a continuous inner ramp that allow for rapid movement via electric scooters, boards, and mopeds. These various new electric vehicles can take you throughout the building and site, without ever having to slowdown or stop.
This ramp ends along the Detroit waterfront, with the ramp and building connected to a multimodal transit center. This center includes a rapid bus stop, Detroit People Mover station, and a proposed water transit center that would regenerate the Detroit River as a aquatic highway of transit for the city and region.
More images to come! The project was done in collaboration with @president_wester and @autumn.m.zhao
Follow DNLY_design to see more of what happens at the intersection of architecture and urban design.
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Hey do any of these people look familiar??? 😌😇 Got my December copy of the Illinois Library Association Reporter where they highlight some of this year’s Spectrum Scholars 👩🏽‍🏫 This is super cool and validating as I finish my first semester in grad school. It’s hard and I ask myself nearly everyday wtf am I doing. And I still don’t have an answer but ima keep at it and maybe I’ll know in 2019 🤪 you can swipe left to read but the words from my blurb are pretty tiny so I put the link to a PDF download of the reporter in my bio if u wanna read what myself and the other scholars have to say! Thank you! #gradlife#alaspectrum#librariansofcolor#MSLIS#librarianstyle#americanlibraryassociation

Spotted this lovely little pair near Barons court station the other day. #carsofinstagram
Finally home for christmas after a long and incredibly busy term and I am so looking forward to eating way too much xmas food and then trying in vain to burn it off with a lot of walks in the countryside🎄✨

I just completed my first semester as a grad student and I wanted to show just how much work I had to do. Everyone wants the results but no one wants to do the hard work. This stuff is no walk in the park. Special cameo with my father.
I think I read probably 40-50 books and wrote easily 60+ pages of good hard analysis.
The exact specifics of what I worked on varies, for it ranges from Mid East literature to Transcontinental literature. I wrote a 18 pager on the innovations and literary contributions of Muslims during the 8th century, a 19 pager on epistemological propaganda methods that reshaped the representations of Western Arabs, and a 28 pager focusing on syncopation and integration of minorities in The Great Gatsby.
My work doesn’t really make sense to some but just wait til your little brother or sister reads The Great Gatsby and your teachers will be educating them on the perspectives I found. Lmao
#GradSchool#GradLife#College#Books#Writing#School#Education#GettingSmarter

I've talked with a lot of grad students who feel isolated from the rest of their cohort. Making friends as an adult is hard. But making friends in grad school can be even more difficult.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#ontheblog#phd#phdlifestyle#academia#academic#selfcare#gradlife#gradschoollife#academiclife#phdlife#gradstudentlife#phinished#phdstudent

The best Christmas dinner ever is the one I cooked tonight. Swap to see pics 🍝. .
This year for Christmas, I decided to do the things I've never done before and reconnect with the true mining of Christmas. I've decided to reject 🚫this idea of Christmas holidays = massive waste of 💲💲 on single use items, cheap and unwanted Christmas presents📦, showing off and eating and drinking like there was no tomorrow 🐽. .
Instead, I made the decision to stay in Nottingham and signed up for a volunteering programme to help cooking Christmas meals for people who can't afford it. It'll be doing it every Tuesday, on Christmas day and New Year's Eve. I'm not doing it because I want to avoid my family or having an excuse not to spend money. I do ❤ my family and, financially, I'm better off than 90% of the world population. It's a new experience and want to know how it feels like to give my time and company 👥 who those who have none👤.
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Note: I did cut my finger but I promise that it didn't end up in the oven with the sausages and chicken legs!
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#volunteering#Christmas

It’s been just over a week since I stopped tracking my intake, and I already feel much less lost. Because I want to gain some healthy weight, I’m basically just trying to eat more than I’m used to eating. The hardest part so far is actually acknowledging and responding to hunger and fullness cues rather than ignoring them. While meals have been pretty easy, snacks can be confusing and overwhelming. I get stuck wondering what I’m hungry enough for. A bar? A handful of something from the pantry? Should I make a full meal? I bought the Intuitive Eating workbook by @evelyntribole because I (obviously) thrive with structure, and I love it so far. I’m hopeful that it will help guide me through some of these gray areas. Of course, I’ll share updates along the way. 💁🏼‍♀️

So change of plans. I now have a paper due on January 4th and I start up my next semester three days after. I’ll have some down time in between but it’s not ideal. Sometimes things change and sometimes it’s not by choice. I’m going to try and enjoy the holidays as much as I can amongst the endless papers and other deadlines. Any advice on how to put it all aside for a couple days or a couple of hours?? Comment below ⬇️💛